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XAML is a very non-descriptive name for one of the UI technologies used in Windows 8 Metro style apps. Nothing at the level of WPF/Avalon or Silverlight/WPF/E. “Jupiter” could be its name, but no one at Microsoft ever officially confirmed what “Jupiter” really is or if it really is the father of “Apollo“. I noticed a blog post of a Microsoft Developer Evangelist mentioning XAML being Jupiter, but it might still just be a mistake, since developer evangelists are not usually members of the product engineering teams at Microsoft, so it might still just be based on rumors taken as fact. Looking for any confirmation I found there was not even a Wikipedia article for the latest XAML UI framework so here it is: